Coventry City’s humiliating 6-2 home defeat by Yeovil Town saw records tumbling left, right and centre.

The “horrific” performance, in the words of defender Jack Grimmer , was the first time the Sky Blues have shipped six goals at the Ricoh Arena and first time two City goalkeepers have conceded three apiece in each half.

Club statistician Jim Brown has confirmed that the result is the heaviest home defeat since 2008 when Tony Mowbray’s West Bromwich Albion beat City 5-0 in the FA Cup, and it’s only the second time in 99 years of league football that Coventry have conceded six. The other was 6-1 against Liverpool in 1990.

The eight goals came from the boots of four players as three Glovers’ strikers and one City front man bagged a brace each. But, incredibly, that’s not the first time City have played a game involving four doubles.

Dubious honour

Four Exeter players managed two apiece in December 1926 when the Grecians beat the Sky Blues 8-1 in the old Div 3 south.

As for the opposition, Coventry have the dubious honour of making it into the Yeovil record books with the result up there with the very best wins in the club’s Football League history, according to manager Darren Way.

In fact, a quick look at the history books and Monday's result is second only to the club's highest victory in the Football League - a 6–1 win over Oxford United from September 2004.

Yeovil celebrate their sixth goal

The Glovers ran riot at the Ricoh Arena with Alex Fisher, Francois Zoko and Sam Surridge all netting on what has been dubbed back in Somerset as a famous afternoon in the West Midlands.

The emphatic victory moved Yeovil closer to mathematical safety in Sky Bet League Two and Way was left in awe of his side’s ‘immense’ performance.

“It’s got to be up there with the best,” said Way.

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“To come to an arena like this, it wasn’t so long ago that I was watching Craig Bellamy playing for Coventry in the Premier League, so to go up against a big club of that magnitude and be able to perform like we did today was immense.”

Could have been more

Yeovil’s win was sparked by a flying start which saw them race into a 3-0 lead inside the first 15 minutes, and Way felt that the eventual margin of victory could have been even greater as Fisher was denied his hat-trick by the offside flag and Jared Bird also went close.

“I thought our performance from start to finish was very good,” said the manager.

“That would have raised a few eyebrows, looking at a team that have been in good form.

History maker - Yeovil manager Darren Way

“I don’t think they’ve conceded goals like that and it could have been eight at one stage. We had Fisher’s ruled off for offside, which was marginal. Jared Bird broke through one on one which they gave off-side.

“Overall, we have to be pleased and I think our supporters have deserved a result like that.”

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The Easter Monday fixture was the first time that Yeovil had been in action for 16 days after suffering two successive postponements, but they put their unexpected rest period to good use to help inspire the most unlikely of results.

Way said: “We’ve had time to work on the training ground.

“We’ve talked about fighting first and playing after, and we’ve done that very well. There was a lot of blocking and tackling in the first half and we earned the right to be able to penetrate a good team like we did and I thought some of the finishing was excellent.

“When you look at Surridge’s finishing towards the end, he came on and made an impact and it was the first time as a manager where I felt that I’ve got options on the bench, and I’ve never really had that before.”